Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Vinny and the invertebrate aquatic life |5:47 PM|
Greetings, this post is being posted via Portal, as I cannot currently update this Blog. How amusing.
I bought crabs yesterday. I'm tempted to say "I got crabs!" Ha ha! Like the venereal lice! But I'll resist. They're really cute for horrible little invertebrate monsters. Portal was the last holdout among people who questioned the existence of freshwater crabs, as I found out only after their existence was verified by observation. She was then unsure about how good a pet they would be, until she saw one decide to just start climbing a fake plant, pinch by pinch.
Now my giant tank is a little less empty. I filled the floor with living and plastic plants, as crabs like to run and hide, and climb on things. I also bought a catfish who we have named "Vinny" because of his mustache. Naming the crabs would be tough, as I can't tell the difference between the two, so collectively they're just "The crabs" or "Inchy and Pinchy". Whichever.
The work proxy server is pissing me off, again. The I/T guys have been blocking a great many websites, and that's expected. It's one thing when they block recreational websites, and make my job a bit tougher to tolerate, but it's quite another when they start blocking websites that could be considered resource sites. Shareware.com has been blocked all of a sudden, and infuriatingly, the reason given in the "Blocked" window is that it has been classified as "chat".
"Chat"? A goddamn database of files? It's clear they've just gotten lazy, and "chat" is the first thing in whatever automated tool they're using to adjust what's blocked. I was able to find the SNMP query tool I needed through other means, but seeing as Google didn't work for me for most of yesterday, cutting off a secondary source of files was just obnoxious.
Vinny and the invertebrate aquatic life |5:47 PM|
Greetings, this post is being posted via Portal, as I cannot currently update this Blog. How amusing.
I bought crabs yesterday. I'm tempted to say "I got crabs!" Ha ha! Like the venereal lice! But I'll resist. They're really cute for horrible little invertebrate monsters. Portal was the last holdout among people who questioned the existence of freshwater crabs, as I found out only after their existence was verified by observation. She was then unsure about how good a pet they would be, until she saw one decide to just start climbing a fake plant, pinch by pinch.
Now my giant tank is a little less empty. I filled the floor with living and plastic plants, as crabs like to run and hide, and climb on things. I also bought a catfish who we have named "Vinny" because of his mustache. Naming the crabs would be tough, as I can't tell the difference between the two, so collectively they're just "The crabs" or "Inchy and Pinchy". Whichever.
The work proxy server is pissing me off, again. The I/T guys have been blocking a great many websites, and that's expected. It's one thing when they block recreational websites, and make my job a bit tougher to tolerate, but it's quite another when they start blocking websites that could be considered resource sites. Shareware.com has been blocked all of a sudden, and infuriatingly, the reason given in the "Blocked" window is that it has been classified as "chat".
"Chat"? A goddamn database of files? It's clear they've just gotten lazy, and "chat" is the first thing in whatever automated tool they're using to adjust what's blocked. I was able to find the SNMP query tool I needed through other means, but seeing as Google didn't work for me for most of yesterday, cutting off a secondary source of files was just obnoxious.
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